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			<h1>Paying my first term&apos;s tuition</h1>
			<p>Day 00599: Wednesday, 2016 October 26</p>
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	<li>249 scheme-specific <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>-parsing classes to write and add to <a href="https://git.vola7ileiax4ueow.onion/y.st./include.d/releases">include.d</a></li>
	<li>1 free elective left in my associate degree program</li>
	<li>4 free electives left in my bachelor degree program</li>
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<li>Remove numeric <abbr title="Extensible Hypertext Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> entities; these pages are written in Unicode, non-<abbr title="American Standard Code for Information Interchange">ASCII</abbr> characters can be used directly.</li>
<li>Find and tag any references to <abbr title="Extensible Hypertext Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> tags in my journal pages.</li>
<li>Find and tag any references to functions, classes, and constants that can be <code>grep</code>ed for; look for backslashes and empty parentheses.</li>
<li>Find and clean up references to <code>/domain_research/</code>.</li>
<li>Build error pages.</li>
<li>Update the onion domain pages to show that the onions are down</li>
<li>Update the hall of shame</li>
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	Topics for essays that I want to write outside of school:
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<li>How the <abbr title="GNU &quot;Free&quot; Documentation License">GFDL</abbr> isn&apos;t a free license, and is effectively nonfree even when invariant sections aren&apos;t used</li>
<li>How the telephone number system is screwy</li>
<li>How postpaid mobile plans are bad for customers</li>
<li>How connections using &quot;untrusted&quot; <abbr title="Transport Layer Security">TLS</abbr> certificates are more trustworthy than connections without any <abbr title="Transport Layer Security">TLS</abbr> certificate at all</li>
<li>The importance of free software</li>
<li>The importance of free media</li>
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	I had a strange dream last night.
	While I could feel pain (as I almost always can in dreams), no one else could.
	However, this weakness came with a strength as well.
	Everyone else was immune to pain, but they otherwise were normal.
	On the other hand, I could manipulate my body to give myself new capabilities.
	I used this to give myself super jumping capabilities to flee a pursuer.
	At one point, some people tried to stop me from jumping from a high place thinking that I was going to hurt myself, but of course, jumping from there only provided me with more bounce so that I could travel further and continue fleeing.
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	It&apos;s going to take some getting used to this <abbr title="Wide Video Graphics Array">WVGA</abbr> camera mode.
	It works great, but when previewing the photographs on my mobile right after taking them, they appear very blurry.
	I think that the problem is that the mobile has such a high screen resolution and the small images get stretched and blurred.
	I&apos;d much prefer pixilation, as I&apos;d see that the image wasn&apos;t blurry, just small.
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	<a href="http://www.uopeople.edu/">University of the People</a> seems to only take online payments via PayPal, so that&apos;s how I payed them for this term.
	They also take Western Union wire transfers, but while PayPal is highly shady, Western Union seems somehow even more shady.
	I could be misjudging them though.
	In any case, PayPal has no business knowing my legal name, so I of course gave them my real name instead.
	PayPal must have communicated the name that I payed under to University of the People.
	There shouldn&apos;t be any issues, but with my luck, there could be major problems.
	The best case scenario is that University of the People&apos;s system isn&apos;t programmed to notice or care.
	The most likely situation is that they do notice, but assume that I borrowed someone else&apos;s credit card with permission.
	The worst case scenario is that they&apos;ll refund the fee and demand that I pay another way.
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	I made progress in both of my assignments that I should have completed today, but I didn&apos;t finish either one.
	I still have tomorrow though, as these assignments are due beyond the end of the school week.
	The final exams are now available, though before taking them, I should complete the assignments from last week, read through the reading material of this week, and take the ungraded quizzes offered.
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	My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
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